Sade

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00:00:23 The past encourages me,
00:00:28 I have little fear of the future.
00:00:50 Saint-Lazare Prison
00:01:02 Forgetting my barber?
00:01:03 Later, citizen, wait your turn.
00:01:07 - What is the weather like?
00:01:51 It's the end. Will you pray with us, sir?
00:01:54 Sorry, but I'm not superstitious.
00:01:56 Don't speak to him!
00:01:59 He has a handsome face.
00:02:03 To have fucked so little...
00:02:06 You respect nothing.
00:02:07 I respect life.
00:02:09 But death rules here.
00:02:11 No, look around you.
00:02:14 Even in the prison lice.
00:02:29 Citizen Sade!
00:02:33 I am not a noble.
00:02:35 You have a fief in Provence.
00:02:36 I have some land.
00:02:40 Take this down, citizen.
00:02:41 All my ancestors exercised
00:02:48 Your children emigrated.
00:02:51 When I last saw them,
00:02:55 But if they have emigrated,
00:02:57 I abhor them and abandon them
00:03:01 As you can see, I don't believe it.
00:03:04 I spent 15 years in prisons,
00:03:10 On what grounds?
00:03:12 The reign of the arbitrary
00:03:14 blindly struck out at all lovers of liberty.
00:03:18 But I know how precious your time is.
00:03:22 You've read my letter of 18 Ventôse?
00:03:25 I was vice-president of the Pike Section.
00:03:28 I represented it at the Convention.
00:03:31 I penned a eulogy to Marat...
00:03:33 You speak and write a good deal.
00:03:37 You're a man of letters, you say.
00:03:41 You know this book?
00:03:48 "The libertine's frenzy only increased...
00:03:52 "He opened a closet
00:03:55 "withdrew one with a steel tip,
00:03:58 "which made me tremble..."
00:04:01 No.
00:04:04 The printer was judged.
00:04:06 He was guillotined.
00:04:10 Did you know?
00:04:15 It's a defense of crime,
00:04:17 the most bestial debauchery, and atheism.
00:04:20 Who is the guiltier,
00:04:26 Rumor has it that you are the author.
00:04:29 Come now, citizen,
00:04:33 Is the same person likely to extol
00:04:38 and vice in a novel?
00:04:40 No one can be divided in such a way
00:04:45 Take him away.
00:05:10 - It's not much!
00:05:13 Get in.
00:05:20 I fear, sir, we must share the same carriage,
00:05:23 and the same fate, perhaps.
00:05:25 Do you know our destination?
00:05:28 You don't know?
00:05:30 To Citizen Coignard's, at Picpus.
00:05:35 A house where we won't have a key?
00:05:39 A sort of clinic.
00:05:42 What afflictions do they treat?
00:05:44 Diseases that are part of the current climate.
00:05:49 You know...
00:05:52 There is company in which one is gladly ill.
00:05:55 It's the times that are sick, sir. Not us.
00:06:04 Viscount de Lancris.
00:06:06 That's how I was once addressed.
00:06:08 My wife,
00:06:10 and my daughter, Emilie.
00:06:14 Sade.
00:06:27 We'll report the coachman is drunk.
00:06:36 Picpus Convent
00:07:16 - Avoid that man.
00:07:17 I'll tell you later.
00:07:19 Citizen Coignard, who runs Picpus.
00:07:23 He's in charge of your detention.
00:07:25 The court report on the prisoners.
00:07:28 I'll be back in ten days.
00:07:31 Citizens, this is my wife.
00:07:37 Viscount de Lancris?
00:07:41 Your agent is here.
00:07:42 My lord...
00:07:45 I took the liberty of levying
00:07:52 We'll show you to your rooms.
00:07:55 They're spacious
00:08:08 Lancris, my friend!
00:08:11 I feared the worst, but you're here!
00:08:14 At what price!
00:08:16 I expected you without realizing it.
00:08:18 Hello, Emilie.
00:08:20 Poor child. This is her youth.
00:08:23 The Duchess de Villars Brancas is here!
00:08:44 The guillotine didn't kill off the species.
00:08:47 You'd exterminate it?
00:08:48 How you said that!
00:08:50 I've saved many a head in the Pike Section!
00:08:53 - You took part?
00:08:55 History in the making is beautiful.
00:08:57 Come, Emilie!
00:08:59 I'm not to speak to you.
00:09:01 I'll speak for two.
00:09:09 - Sade.
00:09:10 - Your warm welcome touches me...
00:09:16 Meals are served in the common room.
00:09:19 Dinners are allowed in your rooms,
00:09:22 but you'd have to pay the caterer.
00:09:29 It's high.
00:09:36 I counted 72 steps.
00:09:43 You're down at the end.
00:09:58 Citizen Coignard.
00:10:02 You must let me speak to you.
00:10:04 I told your husband, board isn't free.
00:10:10 Give us a little more time.
00:10:13 We can take smaller rooms.
00:10:15 I know you're sensitive to suffering.
00:10:18 Rules are rules.
00:10:21 Making an exception
00:10:24 Pretty lady. Her tears seem genuine.
00:10:27 She played tragedy in the provinces.
00:10:29 I can imagine her cries.
00:10:33 I don't claim feudal rights.
00:10:35 - You should.
00:10:38 Your room.
00:10:51 A nun's cell.
00:10:53 This was a convent once.
00:10:55 They lived here like bats in the belfry.
00:10:58 Would you rather return to Saint Lazare?
00:11:03 Tell me why I'm here.
00:11:05 I needn't answer you.
00:11:06 The Republic granted you special favors.
00:11:09 The Republic can hear
00:11:12 Beware, citizen.
00:11:14 Favors can easily be withdrawn.
00:11:17 This is a prison, after all.
00:11:19 Insolence won't be tolerated.
00:11:51 Are they lemon trees?
00:11:53 - Yes.
00:11:56 Prune them twice yearly.
00:12:00 A necessary mutilation.
00:12:02 Put it down here, please.
00:12:08 The bedding is acceptable.
00:12:11 Sheets... yes, they're here.
00:12:13 Emilie, take the next room.
00:12:15 We'll be fine here.
00:12:17 It's a trap closing in on us.
00:12:38 There's even a spinet.
00:12:45 Emilie, what are you doing?
00:13:03 Paris, Gravilliers Street
00:13:10 Finish your food.
00:13:12 I'm not hungry, I'm sleepy.
00:13:15 Good evening, child.
00:13:21 Shall I put him to bed?
00:13:39 Don't bring him next time.
00:13:41 I can't leave him with anyone.
00:13:44 Your marquis isn't his father?
00:13:46 No. I told you, I only met him 3 years ago.
00:13:54 He reached Picpus safely?
00:13:57 Don't worry, the beast is at rest.
00:14:02 Thank you.
00:14:04 I promised you.
00:14:20 You're brutal.
00:14:22 Forgive me.
00:14:26 He's nearly twice your age.
00:14:28 Is it out of habit or pity?
00:14:30 He was good to us.
00:14:33 He had a chambermaid at home
00:14:36 His reputation follows him like the pox.
00:14:39 He's calmed down since.
00:14:46 They say he writes.
00:14:49 What does he write?
00:14:51 I've never read his work.
00:14:54 What wasted talents!
00:14:57 Enough about him, then!
00:15:11 Undo your bodice.
00:15:23 I didn't listen to the other deputies.
00:15:27 You know why?
00:15:31 Guess.
00:15:35 Because I knew you were here,
00:15:38 waiting for me.
00:15:54 Did you study well?
00:15:55 - Yes, Father.
00:15:58 They changed Arithmetic.
00:16:01 Those outdated notions had to go.
00:16:03 It's hard to understand.
00:16:05 The trials and errors of new learning.
00:16:13 Let's see this top.
00:16:22 Observe this physical phenomenon.
00:16:25 You have to spin it to keep it on its tip.
00:16:29 You try. Spin it.
00:16:32 That's it. Keep it up.
00:16:41 My Holbach!
00:16:43 I also brought you paper and quills.
00:16:45 Are they sharpened?
00:16:47 These are fine.
00:16:49 4 quills. You brought me 4 books
00:16:53 Will I be here 4 days or 4 years?
00:16:56 Always your figures!
00:16:57 Numbers, not figures.
00:17:06 I drew up a list of what I need.
00:17:09 Vanilla cream, nougat, candied fruit,
00:17:12 brandy from Mayence, the finest...
00:17:14 Veal cutlets,
00:17:16 thick alpaca sheets... These are coarse.
00:17:19 Where'll I find all that?
00:17:20 You'll manage.
00:17:22 Can you believe I'm happy here?
00:17:25 A select society, charming women.
00:17:28 Of course, they cold-shoulder me,
00:17:30 but I'll set them on their ass.
00:17:37 Will you come see me every day?
00:17:39 I won't be allowed to.
00:17:45 You're all undone.
00:17:47 It's scandalous to arouse poor folks.
00:17:50 Is this how you visit deputies like Fournier?
00:17:57 Is he more jealous than I?
00:18:00 No. A delicate subject.
00:18:08 The child...
00:18:22 Mademoiselle de Lancris!
00:18:25 Would you look after a child?
00:18:27 He'll behave. He's be right down.
00:18:37 Go on, son.
00:18:38 There's a girl outside pretty enough
00:18:44 If such paintings still existed.
00:18:56 - What's your name?
00:18:58 Come.
00:19:16 Good evening.
00:19:22 May I join you?
00:19:28 Good evening, Viscount.
00:19:32 Your wife stayed in?
00:19:34 Yes, she's feeling poorly.
00:19:40 We're neighbors again.
00:19:44 Thank you for looking after the boy.
00:19:46 I did it for him.
00:19:48 Let us say, for love of humankind.
00:20:03 Hello, citizen.
00:20:05 So you're both gardener and servant.
00:20:09 What's your name?
00:20:10 Augustin.
00:20:24 Citizens, before we begin our meal,
00:20:27 I must acquaint you
00:20:30 of which the Convention
00:20:36 "In the north,
00:20:40 "have broken the Austro-Prussian lines
00:20:42 "and scattered the intruders
00:20:45 "And, vigilantly pursuing the enemy within,
00:20:48 "Citizen Robespierre
00:20:53 "He has had the Convention adopt
00:20:55 "a decree declaring the existence
00:20:58 "and the immortality of the soul.
00:21:01 "A great fete on the Champs de Mars
00:21:07 And now, let us taste this good soup
00:21:13 Yes, but it needs salt.
00:21:19 The Supreme Being, what is it exactly?
00:21:22 What is it made of?
00:21:26 Is it solid? Gaseous?
00:21:28 Someone must ask Robespierre.
00:21:34 Enlighten me, Madame.
00:21:37 Perhaps.
00:21:38 As Mlle Saint-Prix,
00:21:40 I played Sabine in Horace,
00:21:42 Voltaire's Zaire in Lyon...
00:21:44 It was in Zaire.
00:21:48 Did you ever see her?
00:21:51 If I did, I would remember.
00:21:53 Madame has a presence one doesn't forget.
00:22:00 I'm an author myself.
00:22:02 Do you know my play, Oxtiern?
00:22:10 It's the story of a wicked lord in Sweden.
00:22:14 It was staged at the Théâtre Molière,
00:22:16 but it fell victim to a cabal.
00:22:19 You have a lot of enemies.
00:22:21 True. But no matter.
00:22:24 If others think strangely,
00:22:28 Let's not be victims.
00:22:29 Would you change your displeasing traits?
00:22:33 Never.
00:22:35 I am what I am. I won't be changed.
00:22:38 What could the Republic reprove
00:22:40 in a woman who has served
00:22:43 My husband was a financier,
00:22:47 That paper currency affair.
00:22:49 He did things a bit...
00:22:52 tactlessly.
00:22:54 He lost everything.
00:22:57 For the sake of economy.
00:23:01 We're all in the same boat.
00:23:03 The costs here are beyond comprehension.
00:23:07 Accept my caterer's services.
00:23:10 Look at that mummy
00:23:15 It's Mr. De Maussane's godson.
00:23:17 Your naiveté is refreshing.
00:23:20 You don't think that?
00:23:21 Nature goes where it will.
00:23:24 But he's so old and ugly.
00:23:27 A potential protector is rarely an Adonis.
00:23:37 Finette!
00:23:39 - Kindly remove this abortion.
00:23:41 Only big hounds that lick you.
00:23:44 Or bite you.
00:23:47 Are there any books around here?
00:23:50 I didn't see any.
00:23:52 You should read. You're intelligent.
00:23:54 I'm not illiterate.
00:23:56 You must have pretty handwriting. If I may...
00:23:59 Would you help me file my papers
00:24:05 At Saint Lazare, I caught an allergy
00:24:09 You ask for many favors.
00:24:13 I'm sorry, I can't help you.
00:24:30 Are you feeling better, Mother?
00:24:32 A little.
00:24:34 Come pray with me, Emilie.
00:24:45 Where is your father?
00:24:48 Talking downstairs.
00:24:55 Love your father, Emilie.
00:24:57 He may seem inattentive or frivolous,
00:25:00 but it is to him,
00:25:01 to his tenderness and fortune,
00:25:05 But expect nothing of life.
00:25:14 It's me.
00:25:15 If it's you, then come in.
00:25:20 This isn't an ogre's den.
00:25:22 I know.
00:25:23 Though among all the things
00:25:27 Well, it's all true.
00:25:29 But not as they mean it.
00:25:33 Is this your writing?
00:25:34 Yes. But I've been working for 3 hours.
00:25:37 And your allergy?
00:25:39 I treated it with compresses
00:25:45 Is this about your life?
00:25:53 Sit down, Emilie.
00:26:02 Let me look at you.
00:26:09 Shall I talk with my back turned?
00:26:13 Like this?
00:26:15 Anyway, you're too pretty.
00:26:30 What can I tell you?
00:26:36 Yes, I was a libertine.
00:26:40 Yes,
00:26:41 everything one can imagine, I have done.
00:26:51 But I'm not a murderer.
00:26:56 I've never distinguished
00:27:00 Between this...
00:27:05 and this.
00:27:08 Mind and body cannot exist
00:27:13 My philosophy is boring you.
00:27:18 Care for a fruit jelly?
00:27:21 Tell me more.
00:27:25 All my misfortunes begin there.
00:27:28 I took the byroads when they wanted
00:27:33 The rest is all tavern gossip,
00:27:36 brothel jealousies.
00:27:39 And the fury of my mother-in-law,
00:27:43 a parvenu in collusion
00:27:48 Mothers are not my kind.
00:27:50 Mine considers you a demon.
00:27:52 Yes...
00:27:54 These woman share
00:27:58 Who was that woman with the child?
00:28:03 What?
00:28:07 Madame Quesnet.
00:28:11 She's quite beautiful.
00:28:13 I think so, too.
00:28:16 Madame Quesnet is the most honest,
00:28:20 the most sensitive of women.
00:28:25 In fact, I call her Sensitive.
00:28:31 So she consoles you.
00:28:33 For what? Regrets aren't part of nature.
00:28:36 Part of yours, perhaps.
00:28:38 But isn't your thinking rigid?
00:28:41 It looks like a facade.
00:28:44 You don't have a bad little mind.
00:28:47 But we'll never agree on this point.
00:28:52 Help me to understand you.
00:28:54 This may tell me more.
00:28:56 No, it won't.
00:28:58 Why not?
00:29:00 - It's not for you.
00:29:02 No, too young.
00:29:03 And read at random, it will mean nothing.
00:29:06 You asked me to copy passages.
00:29:09 There are things we say, things we do,
00:29:12 and things we write.
00:29:14 But it all goes together,
00:29:17 the mind and the body.
00:29:19 It's beyond you.
00:29:21 Is it so boring?
00:29:23 Is that why your plays aren't acted
00:29:28 What insolence!
00:29:30 Read, then.
00:29:34 Go on, read!
00:30:00 Addio, bellezza.
00:30:16 Are you asleep?
00:30:20 You're really asleep?
00:30:28 You'll stay here and live with me.
00:30:35 I'll hold you captive and send
00:30:45 What's gotten into you?
00:30:49 This situation has to end.
00:30:51 You're known as a loose woman,
00:30:56 I want to marry you and adopt your son.
00:30:59 I'm not asking you to.
00:31:02 If Robespierre knew, he'd despise me.
00:31:06 Do you understand?
00:31:08 Walking in the Tuileries, I hear,
00:31:14 I won't marry you.
00:31:24 I arraign people who haven't done
00:31:31 Love is not made for times like ours.
00:31:34 In what magical age did love exist?
00:31:37 The age of kings and marquises?
00:31:47 Must I be old and corrupt to please you?
00:31:52 Rotten to the core?
00:31:56 A writer of filth?
00:32:03 My life is tied to his.
00:32:05 You admit it! You love a pander.
00:32:07 You shouldn't complain.
00:32:10 Is that what it takes to put you in the mood?
00:32:15 I'll never forgive you.
00:32:18 I know it all now. I read his loathsome book.
00:32:21 What did you read? He didn't write it!
00:32:24 Stop lying to me!
00:32:27 Everyone knows it's him.
00:32:35 Is that what you want?
00:32:37 To be tied to the bed?
00:32:51 He never beat me.
00:32:53 Never!
00:33:23 You did well to come out.
00:33:33 - This way.
00:33:36 - Shall I?
00:33:52 Your mother wasn't to go out.
00:33:54 But she did.
00:33:56 Should I go up to see her?
00:33:58 It's for you to decide.
00:34:00 True. I'll go up, then.
00:34:13 Would you like a flower?
00:34:30 Your turn, chevalier. Don't doze.
00:34:49 Have a seat, Madame.
00:34:50 Where is Mr. De Lancris?
00:34:53 Yes, hush!
00:34:56 When will you finish?
00:34:57 Whenever I finish.
00:34:59 You have money to lose?
00:35:01 Money, money, money.
00:35:05 12. 12 is fine.
00:35:07 12 strokes of midnight.
00:35:08 What do they all see
00:35:28 Who is the lady in black?
00:35:30 Duchess de Villars Brancas.
00:35:32 Still in mourning for Louis XVI.
00:35:36 Poor Louis. He paid for his wife's sins.
00:35:39 Never marry, except on stage.
00:35:41 But I needn't tell you that.
00:35:44 What a dull game.
00:35:48 We have outdoor games.
00:35:50 Leapfrog and blind man's buff.
00:35:52 We can do better than that.
00:35:54 The stage is your domain.
00:35:57 I'm an author.
00:36:01 They'll never allow it.
00:36:03 Why not? Coignard must appreciate the arts.
00:36:06 Perhaps a comedy of manners. The Seducer.
00:36:09 The Théâtre Italien booked it.
00:36:12 We've a coquette, a male lead.
00:36:20 They're being taken away!
00:36:21 Come quickly!
00:36:32 It's the lawyer Fayet.
00:36:34 - Who's next?
00:36:39 Don't watch.
00:36:43 Don't go away.
00:36:46 You look troubled. Be yourself, my lord.
00:36:50 What you read is not this violence here.
00:36:53 Murder dictated by law revolts me.
00:36:55 It's an expression of abstract principles.
00:36:58 Once, in the Pike Section,
00:37:02 they tried to make me vote
00:37:05 I left my seat.
00:37:07 You had powers of life and death?
00:37:09 The Montreuils,
00:37:11 my hated in-laws, were on a purge list.
00:37:15 One word from me and...
00:37:17 I said nothing.
00:37:19 There's my revenge.
00:37:22 You believe in that?
00:37:24 It's because...
00:37:25 I see in the Revolution
00:37:28 the underdog's revenge.
00:37:33 Except when villains gut my chateau.
00:37:38 But the wheel will turn again.
00:37:39 The State must be mobile, like its citizens.
00:37:45 Let's step out.
00:38:03 The gate is barely guarded.
00:38:06 We could bribe the sentry,
00:38:08 or drug him.
00:38:10 Or even kill him.
00:38:13 Where would we go?
00:38:16 The world is vast,
00:38:18 but no one ever thinks of fleeing.
00:38:21 I long cherished the word "liberty."
00:38:24 And now?
00:38:28 I may believe in it.
00:38:30 But for me or for others? I can't say.
00:38:35 But I...
00:38:38 I talk to you like a philosopher,
00:38:40 forgetting your age and your sex.
00:38:43 Can you explain why?
00:38:47 Unhappiness has made you this way.
00:38:50 Ah, women and their sentimentality!
00:39:22 "Paul said to her:
00:39:26 'The birds sing at the sight of you.
00:39:30 'only you are sad.'
00:39:31 "And he tried to kiss her,
00:39:33 "but Virginie turned her face away.
00:39:39 "Paul failed to understand
00:39:42 "Misfortunes seldom come alone."
00:39:46 Shall I continue?
00:39:53 "Misfortunes seldom come alone."
00:40:14 Come, we're alone.
00:40:54 Emilie, are you asleep?
00:41:50 "Each nation has its laws, culture, virtues,
00:41:53 "which its neighbor dares to abuse.
00:41:56 "We condemn your manner,
00:41:59 "and you heap on ours
00:42:05 You'll make progress.
00:42:07 - Help him.
00:42:09 He's utterly devoted to you.
00:42:11 Sew, sew! We also need turbans.
00:42:14 We'll run out of cloth!
00:42:15 Cut up your old dresses.
00:42:18 Actor and painter... What diverse talents!
00:42:23 You were tempting me.
00:42:24 Your buttocks are as soft as lilacs.
00:42:28 What am I doing here?
00:42:29 I've cast you in a towering role.
00:42:32 The Grand Eunuch.
00:42:34 The Grand Eunuch.
00:42:35 His ugliness makes him
00:42:38 but he wields great political influence.
00:42:42 Paying a visit?
00:42:44 The young captive would have suited you.
00:42:50 I couldn't.
00:42:51 If I dared to force you,
00:42:58 Look at the chevalier.
00:43:00 His every gesture is graceful.
00:43:04 Don't you find him charming?
00:43:09 He doesn't do anything for me.
00:43:11 True, he couldn't do you any harm.
00:43:15 No one here appeals to you?
00:43:19 Apart from me,
00:43:23 But it's spring, everything's rising.
00:43:26 Don't wilt away like a nun.
00:43:29 You prefer Augustin's vigor. Like a horse's!
00:43:33 Citizen!
00:43:34 What did I say? Nothing but niceties.
00:43:43 I was worried, waiting since Tuesday.
00:43:46 - Hello, son.
00:43:48 I brought what you wanted...
00:43:50 See that?
00:43:52 They're having a lark.
00:43:55 I see.
00:43:57 I wish you would act, too.
00:44:00 I've more familiar with the wings.
00:44:05 What's that?
00:44:06 Nothing.
00:44:08 Charles opened a window in my face.
00:44:10 Not your little Jacobin?
00:44:13 I'll crush him.
00:44:14 I don't see how.
00:44:22 Citizen Quesnet... Citizen Lancris.
00:44:27 Taking part in the festivities?
00:44:29 I'm watching.
00:44:31 She watches and judges.
00:44:33 What is all this?
00:44:35 Turning Picpus upside down!
00:44:38 This is a retreat, a rest home.
00:44:41 Not a side show.
00:44:43 - You said we could...
00:44:45 It's a mere divertissement.
00:44:49 No Old Regime nonsense.
00:44:52 It's against my civic duty.
00:44:54 You were glad to discover pleasures
00:44:57 social injustice had forbidden you.
00:44:59 What?
00:45:01 We all consider you an enlightened man.
00:45:03 Spare me your tricks.
00:45:05 No plays on my property!
00:45:20 Slower, he can't keep up.
00:45:25 You'll meet Robespierre.
00:45:28 You'll see what my life is like.
00:45:30 You'll be moved.
00:45:32 Your friends shed a lot of blood.
00:45:37 We must cut deep to draw out evil.
00:45:40 Think of all we've done in a few months.
00:45:44 Here we'll have 100 little girls,
00:45:48 All singing odes. Care to hear one?
00:45:50 Later.
00:45:52 A huge Phrygian bonnet
00:45:55 The amphitheater is being built.
00:45:58 You descend the steps
00:46:01 ears of corn and poppies.
00:46:03 Every Convention deputy should have one.
00:46:08 A dummy will represent Atheism.
00:46:10 You take the torch, set it aflame.
00:46:12 The Statue of Wisdom appears from below.
00:46:15 Then onward to the Champs de Mars.
00:46:21 Why alone? We walk together.
00:46:23 But you preside the Convention.
00:46:27 Hello, Etienne.
00:46:28 Maximilien...
00:46:32 Citizen...
00:46:35 Your son?
00:46:37 Yes, citizen.
00:46:40 Your Fournier is a good republican.
00:46:42 He's not afraid to perform his duty.
00:46:45 Will you attend
00:46:49 She'll attend.
00:46:51 It will be a fete like no other.
00:46:55 Don't cry victory yet.
00:46:57 Atheism is a vice of the mind.
00:46:59 Born of the aristocracy,
00:47:03 You will only carry a bouquet of flowers,
00:47:07 an offering to the Nation.
00:47:31 God wouldn't save the King.
00:47:33 Why save us, then?
00:47:34 Silence! You'll bring us bad luck.
00:47:37 Such talk before our child!
00:47:39 But the guillotine is at our windows!
00:47:43 I know.
00:47:44 They say the Parisians complain
00:47:49 Get up. You cultivate imaginary ills.
00:47:52 But I let you do as you please.
00:47:55 Enjoy it while you can.
00:48:04 What is this law of 22 Prairial?
00:48:08 Who sees to the defense?
00:48:10 It's a law to punish conspirators only.
00:48:13 Tell us more!
00:48:14 The innocent are safe.
00:48:16 - Are we safe?
00:48:18 And the Fete of the Supreme Being?
00:48:21 It was a farce!
00:48:22 With Robespierre as high priest.
00:48:25 Being master isn't enough.
00:48:28 I hear the Statue of Wisdom
00:48:49 I was in your room.
00:48:52 My room?
00:48:54 Excuse the way I'm dressed.
00:48:56 It's this bestial heat.
00:48:58 What are you doing?
00:48:59 Trying to sort things.
00:49:01 Coignard authorizes our play
00:49:04 so long as its silent.
00:49:06 Gagged once again.
00:49:10 But we'll come up
00:49:13 See the props?
00:49:17 You really won't join us?
00:49:22 Don't you realize our plight?
00:49:24 Yes, I do.
00:49:28 Whether heads fall here
00:49:32 the horror is just as horrible.
00:49:35 What is it?
00:49:38 Nothing.
00:49:40 I wanted to see you,
00:49:43 talk to you.
00:49:45 I'm not against talking.
00:49:47 You don't talk, you evade things.
00:49:50 You're angry.
00:49:53 What?
00:49:54 What is it? I don't provide
00:49:59 I'm not ashamed of my fear.
00:50:02 And what can be stronger than fear? Think...
00:50:11 It rises from deep within us
00:50:13 and no one can take it away.
00:50:19 You're on fire.
00:50:24 Do you find me pretty?
00:50:36 Is it protection you want?
00:50:46 Do as I say and you'll stop being afraid.
00:50:52 Walk.
00:50:54 Go on.
00:50:58 Don't be stiff.
00:51:01 Turn.
00:51:08 Arch your back.
00:51:12 Close your eyes.
00:51:17 Open your mouth.
00:51:19 Wider, I want to see deep inside.
00:51:27 Touch me here.
00:51:31 What's wrong, child?
00:51:33 Think I'm fit to be scrapped?
00:51:36 Your problem is that you're a virgin here...
00:51:41 and here.
00:51:48 You're not as clever
00:51:53 Yes, I write with my member in hand.
00:51:59 Goodbye, Lancris.
00:52:01 Don't take it badly.
00:52:03 My brutality was a form of tact.
00:52:08 You'll thank me for having spared you.
00:52:11 Or else ask Augustin to give you a child.
00:52:15 The guillotine spares pregnant women.
00:52:19 Speak to her first.
00:52:44 Yes?
00:52:46 I won't read your books, but I might play.
00:53:00 Get on with it.
00:53:03 - Look terrifying, Lancris.
00:53:06 Higher.
00:53:08 - My part is so dark.
00:53:11 Don't spare the makeup.
00:53:13 I want you with oriental eyes.
00:53:20 Enjoying yourself at least?
00:53:23 You see?
00:53:24 Let us act childish, act mad, act foolish.
00:53:29 When life threatens to slip away,
00:53:32 On stage!
00:53:43 Deep in the harem...
00:53:44 where man ventures not for fear of death,
00:53:47 Angelica discovered
00:53:52 Is any prison more voluptuous?
00:53:54 Oblivious of duty,
00:53:56 to satisfy a passion censured here,
00:53:59 but not in the Orient,
00:54:01 the Grand Eunuch smuggled
00:54:03 young Astolphe in
00:54:07 who fill Mahomet's paradise.
00:54:10 But,
00:54:12 during that time,
00:54:14 the favorite, consumed by jealousy,
00:54:17 The shrew will strike,
00:54:19 tear out Angelica's heart
00:54:21 before the Grand Turk's wild-eyed gaze.
00:54:24 Faced with this monstrous spectacle,
00:54:27 the libertine cannot conceal an emotion
00:54:31 that is only too natural.
00:54:42 Read.
00:54:46 On orders of Citizen Avril, Public Works.
00:54:56 The ditch must be 25 feet long,
00:54:58 16 feet wide and 23 feet deep.
00:55:00 Sink posts at each end.
00:55:02 I'll report this to Public Safety.
00:55:05 Why here? You want my ruin, citizen?
00:55:07 No one will use my park now.
00:55:09 Does it serve the Nation?
00:55:12 You read the requisition order.
00:55:17 The tumbrels will come in
00:55:18 where the diggers are.
00:55:21 What are you doing?
00:55:23 - Who are you?
00:55:24 Then grab a shovel.
00:55:27 What an outfit!
00:55:31 Will I be compensated?
00:55:33 Are you joking?
00:55:38 Who are they?
00:55:39 My patients.
00:55:42 Go back to your rooms.
00:55:44 Your patients are mad to dress like that.
00:55:47 And you allow this masquerade?
00:56:04 So, Charles, always in your atlas?
00:56:07 He can't keep his nose out of it.
00:56:12 Time for bed.
00:56:13 - It's still light out.
00:56:18 Today's the longest day of the year.
00:56:27 Be good.
00:56:29 Sleep well, child.
00:56:32 Until tomorrow.
00:56:34 It's hot. Change your shirt.
00:56:36 This one's clean.
00:56:39 We can put his bed upstairs.
00:56:41 He'll be better there.
00:56:47 You're tired.
00:56:50 I hardly slept all week.
00:56:51 I go back tonight.
00:57:02 Sedition seeps
00:57:05 We must eradicate it.
00:57:11 Listen, I can't protect him any longer.
00:57:13 Why not?
00:57:15 Robespierre spoke of Sade.
00:57:17 He abominates his kind.
00:57:19 We're stalking the libertines.
00:57:21 I must go see him.
00:57:23 Picpus has been requisitioned.
00:57:27 Not even newspapers.
00:57:30 Get me a pass.
00:57:31 To tell him what?
00:57:35 No, I can't.
00:57:37 From now on, I heed my convictions.
00:57:43 Aren't you happy with me?
00:57:46 And there. Don't deny it.
00:57:55 You'll forget him soon enough.
00:57:57 I can't. He's like family.
00:58:01 Family?
00:58:04 A woman comes with her past.
00:58:09 A family demands love and respect.
00:58:11 It's sacred. Don't debase the word.
00:58:14 He's as alone as the devil.
00:58:15 - What I'm asking is...
00:58:19 It fills me with shame. Understand?
00:58:22 Shame of what? Saving a life?
00:58:25 That's not betraying anything.
00:58:28 That man is the enemy.
00:58:30 Because I lived with him?
00:58:33 No, he's no longer a rival.
00:58:36 He is what must no longer exist.
00:58:43 If I save him,
00:58:51 You hesitated. It's a start.
00:58:54 Let me go to Picpus.
00:58:56 And what do we do?
00:58:57 Send him home to his ruins,
00:59:01 So he can rape farm girls
00:59:02 and write his filth, while we all croak?
00:59:46 Strip them!
00:59:50 The shoes and garments here!
00:59:53 They're for the hospital poor.
01:00:39 Don't look, child. It's horrible.
01:00:42 I want to see.
01:00:47 They're wedging the bodies with the heads.
01:00:57 The stench!
01:01:00 The stench is unbearable.
01:01:08 He's not coming tonight?
01:01:15 I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
01:01:18 Without him, what would become of us?
01:01:21 - I'm opening the window.
01:01:24 It's stifling in here!
01:01:29 The smell of herbs is worse!
01:02:08 Are you counting? The dead?
01:02:15 A superstition of mine, my fetish.
01:02:18 I juxtapose figures I hear during the day.
01:02:21 I add or subtract them.
01:02:23 They become signs I alone understand.
01:02:26 To read the future?
01:02:28 In a way.
01:02:31 The future's easy to predict.
01:02:36 It can be reckoned in days, in hours.
01:02:41 Nothing is ever played out.
01:03:01 They roam about the building,
01:03:03 on every floor, in the halls.
01:03:07 They wander like souls in purgatory.
01:03:09 Isn't it strange?
01:03:12 Here we're free, but prisoners.
01:03:16 As if dead before dying.
01:03:19 This is still life, Emilie.
01:03:23 How can I experience it all in so little time?
01:03:26 And even if the worst happens?
01:03:28 We return to the matter we came from.
01:03:31 Without fear, without hope.
01:03:34 We will be dead,
01:03:36 but the world will continue.
01:03:38 That's nature.
01:03:41 Men today,
01:03:43 worms tomorrow, flies the day after.
01:03:47 Isn't that still existence?
01:03:51 A far more comforting eternity
01:03:55 But we're not matter.
01:03:57 It's inhuman!
01:03:59 What we feel, what we try to grasp,
01:04:02 those we live with, you, me...
01:04:05 Their gestures, their voices,
01:04:06 the words that soothe us, hurt us...
01:04:15 Look at me.
01:04:20 If I die now, I'll never have existed.
01:04:51 Did I hear a knock?
01:04:53 Come with me. Right now.
01:04:57 Follow me. Don't argue.
01:05:03 - Another ditch?
01:05:06 - How many?
01:05:10 This is a special favor.
01:05:12 Don't reveal it, or you're done for.
01:05:17 Don't leave here. I'll come for you.
01:05:26 You stopped coming.
01:05:28 They wouldn't let me.
01:05:30 Even before, you stopped.
01:05:33 How are you?
01:05:36 I lost a tooth. It hurts.
01:05:39 It may be an abscess.
01:05:43 You must get out. That's why I'm here.
01:05:47 How?
01:05:49 I don't know.
01:05:52 I'll find a way for you to escape.
01:05:55 To go where?
01:05:58 We'll see.
01:06:05 Listen, you're in danger, personally.
01:06:09 I wrote the Committee again.
01:06:10 To tell them what?
01:06:12 That you're not noble?
01:06:16 It's no use now.
01:06:19 I'm a good republican.
01:06:22 You have some bizarre ideas.
01:06:26 I have a toothache.
01:06:30 There are a hundred ways to vanish.
01:06:35 Basically,
01:06:37 you want to be rid of me.
01:06:39 You're unfair.
01:06:47 Escape, first.
01:06:49 Yes,
01:06:51 the earthly paradise is a mass grave now.
01:06:56 The pendulum swings...
01:07:02 And here we are taking the air.
01:07:08 He know you're here?
01:07:11 You live with him now?
01:07:14 You can say yes, since it's true.
01:07:17 Perhaps you're better off.
01:07:19 You're a tribune's companion.
01:07:22 How fine but how hazardous.
01:07:25 Yes, I live with him.
01:07:28 He's honest. He'll help us.
01:07:30 A fine soul!
01:07:31 Honest atop a pyramid of corpses!
01:07:34 He's not brutal, the times are.
01:07:37 "Citizen Fournier has the floor."
01:07:47 How you defend him!
01:07:52 Has he improved any?
01:07:54 How does he do it?
01:07:58 Be quiet.
01:08:01 Some men are born to be virgins.
01:08:06 I've also made a few conquests
01:08:11 The young lady I saw?
01:08:13 She's delicious.
01:08:15 And no fool.
01:08:17 A vivacious nature.
01:08:19 Poor thing...
01:08:21 Her womb is aching for it.
01:08:23 I'm beyond forcing asses and cunts.
01:08:27 So am I.
01:08:31 What did you bring me?
01:08:33 What I could find. It's not easy.
01:08:36 Pâté, fruit.
01:08:38 I dislike this brand.
01:08:40 What about Charles?
01:08:41 Does he still speak of me?
01:08:45 He wrote you this note.
01:08:49 I'll read it in my room.
01:08:53 But I won't leave.
01:08:55 You will.
01:08:57 Trust me. I'll get you out.
01:09:00 I'm curious to see what happens here.
01:09:04 My only wish, if I die,
01:09:09 It's hidden in the fireplace in my room.
01:09:13 It's all there now.
01:09:18 You'll do it, won't you?
01:09:26 How long did we live together?
01:09:48 I haven't much time for you.
01:09:51 Attending the next session?
01:09:52 Your master isn't giving any names.
01:09:55 Why not?
01:09:56 Are his enemies so numerous?
01:09:58 He'll name them in time.
01:10:03 Traitor!
01:10:05 Thirsty?
01:10:06 - I've had no time.
01:10:16 I have to tell you...
01:10:18 I saw...
01:10:21 Sade's name on the accused list,
01:10:23 signed by Fouquier-Tinville.
01:10:26 He appears in 2 days.
01:10:28 He's 11th.
01:10:30 Have his name removed.
01:10:32 I haven't the power.
01:10:37 Fournier!
01:10:52 Are you ready?
01:10:56 You shall leave your father and mother.
01:10:59 It's from the Bible.
01:11:05 What is it?
01:11:08 Nothing, go to sleep.
01:11:21 Chevalier...
01:11:23 Good evening.
01:11:26 There was only one tumbrel today.
01:11:29 May I come with you?
01:11:32 Not tonight.
01:11:34 I'm taking the air with Mlle de Lancris.
01:11:47 They filled the ditches with lime.
01:12:02 Imagine the fermentation.
01:12:08 I don't even smell anything now.
01:12:12 We grow used to everything.
01:12:15 Even awaiting our own death.
01:12:20 Are you absolutely sure?
01:12:22 Lead the way.
01:12:36 Hello, Augustin.
01:12:45 I had this midnight snack prepared
01:12:47 by raiding Citizen Coignard's pantry.
01:12:51 The last supper.
01:12:55 Some wine?
01:12:58 It's a Chanturgues.
01:13:01 Fine wine, just slightly heady.
01:13:04 You already drank.
01:13:06 Just one glass.
01:13:07 Even if you'd emptied it, never have regrets.
01:13:11 Never.
01:13:15 Drink, Emilie.
01:13:24 - It's strong.
01:13:29 Look at your princess, Augustin.
01:13:32 Her first night appearing before you.
01:13:48 We'll eat later.
01:14:00 Liven up.
01:14:01 You stand there like nativity figures.
01:14:04 Loosen up.
01:14:06 It's so hot.
01:14:09 You, too, Emilie.
01:14:20 Am I rushing you?
01:14:24 If you tremble, we stop.
01:14:28 Earn this favor or be gone.
01:14:35 I won't leave you.
01:14:51 Come closer.
01:14:52 Slowly.
01:14:55 Closer.
01:14:58 Slowly.
01:15:01 One step,
01:15:03 two steps.
01:15:06 You are two bodies...
01:15:09 No...
01:15:11 Two roles.
01:15:14 The captive and the janissary.
01:15:19 She's been waiting, terrified.
01:15:23 Terrified and impatient.
01:15:30 But damn all that!
01:15:31 You're here, Augustin, Emilie,
01:15:36 Do you want to, Mademoiselle?
01:15:39 Yes.
01:15:40 She says she does.
01:15:42 Even if she doesn't, take her.
01:15:44 Stick out your hand.
01:15:47 Touch her.
01:15:55 Stop! What are you doing?
01:15:57 Did I say to continue?
01:15:59 Here, whip me.
01:16:03 I said whip me.
01:16:06 You whip horses.
01:16:12 Do as I say.
01:16:16 Do as I say!
01:16:19 Do it.
01:16:45 Stop, Marquis.
01:16:54 It's all so far.
01:17:08 You're hard.
01:17:10 Good.
01:17:14 You'll bugger me.
01:17:17 When?
01:17:20 In another life.
01:17:22 What luck, Emilie.
01:17:25 What a stiff cock this bugger has!
01:17:29 It must hold a lot of fuck.
01:17:32 Say the word.
01:17:35 "Fuck."
01:17:39 Fuck.
01:17:40 Good.
01:17:42 Doesn't all this frighten you?
01:17:45 Yes,
01:17:47 but I'm here.
01:17:50 Bid yourself goodbye.
01:17:54 It's easier when you forget.
01:17:57 You're no longer alone in your room.
01:18:00 You've been abducted.
01:18:20 Sade!
01:18:22 Not me.
01:18:23 But I'll be right here.
01:18:29 Come here. She's yours.
01:18:41 On your knees.
01:18:52 Take her ankles.
01:18:57 Spread them.
01:19:06 Stop trembling.
01:19:08 Augustin is no monster.
01:19:15 Look in his eyes.
01:19:20 Oh, Lord!
01:19:23 I forgot how young the world is.
01:19:27 Go down.
01:19:34 Use your mouth.
01:19:36 Ah, fuck! Your tongue...
01:19:45 My friend...
01:19:47 I envy your discovery.
01:19:51 Wait.
01:20:11 Go on.
01:20:41 Come here.
01:21:10 Louis-François Lejeune, ex-police officer.
01:21:14 Monfort the Elder, ex-noble.
01:21:17 Pierre-Louis de Montcrif, ex-noble.
01:21:22 Elisabeth de Beckett de Saint-Maur.
01:21:24 Mother, I don't want to go!
01:21:27 Donatien-Aldonze-François Sade.
01:21:37 He's gone!
01:21:38 He left months ago.
01:21:40 Sade, absent.
01:21:47 What time is it?
01:21:48 You still have time.
01:21:54 "Have time..."
01:22:01 You didn't sleep at all.
01:22:03 Surprised?
01:22:12 - When this is over, we'll go...
01:22:24 Nowhere.
01:22:35 Sade won't be arrested today.
01:22:39 The prisons are chaotic.
01:22:44 You did that?
01:22:46 Yes.
01:22:48 It's what you wanted.
01:22:54 You're not sure now.
01:22:57 I'm off.
01:22:59 It's the day of reckoning.
01:23:03 Wait!
01:23:14 Seize Robespierre!
01:23:25 Maximilien!
01:23:30 Death to Robespierre!
01:24:10 Your house is emptying.
01:24:12 - The tyrant's dead.
01:24:15 There are bastards and unwed mothers.
01:24:18 Bring back bills of exchange.
01:24:20 It's the only way to revive the economy.
01:24:23 You think so?
01:24:25 How long will I rot here?
01:24:28 Santero!
01:24:29 Excuse me.
01:24:31 Louise!
01:24:33 I thought you dead.
01:24:35 Me, too.
01:24:36 - When do you leave?
01:24:42 I live at 12, rue Payenne.
01:24:46 Pay us a call.
01:25:04 You're a good fixer.
01:25:06 The chevalier snubs me now.
01:25:08 It's feigned.
01:25:11 - I said I'm fine here.
01:25:13 Not before royalty is reinstated.
01:25:27 A mass, citizen?
01:25:28 They called in a priest to bless the graves.
01:25:32 - You tried to stop them, I suppose.
01:25:34 I respect their sorrow.
01:26:02 Well...
01:26:05 Here we are, the three of us.
01:26:09 Charles, why are you crying?
01:26:12 Fournier is dead.
01:26:20 Put the trunk next to the coachman.
01:26:46 What I admire about you is your courage.
01:26:52 Someone for you.
01:26:59 Go on.
01:27:10 I find their relief cowardly.
01:27:14 Is it really over?
01:27:16 Is the Terror over?
01:27:18 So it seems.
01:27:20 and never deny yourself pleasure.
01:27:23 So we must live?
01:27:25 For you, it's easy.
01:27:27 You reclaimed your youth.
01:27:30 I know, but I don't feel it.
01:27:33 Are you leaving now?
01:27:37 We'll never meet again?
01:27:39 So you say.
01:27:42 Our paths diverge.
01:27:44 You know about my path?
01:27:46 And how will I know it?
01:27:49 You'll marry.
01:27:51 Is that your lesson?
01:27:53 Don't you only swear by whips,
01:27:57 - When did I say that?
01:28:01 Only in excess can one find liberty.
01:28:06 I'm with Mr. De Sade!
01:28:12 If you marry,
01:28:13 love your husband if need be.
01:28:17 Or none. They deform your body
01:28:22 You're lingering with me.
01:28:28 Your tooth still hurt?
01:28:35 I'll be all alone.
01:28:38 Was all that for nothing?
01:28:41 No. Follow your instinct.
01:28:43 Nature.
01:28:44 I'm repeating myself?
01:28:47 Then we mustn't meet again.
01:28:50 But I believe in that inner voice.
01:28:56 We met in exceptional circumstances,
01:28:58 we grew close.
01:29:02 Let's remain on those heights.
01:29:16 Thank you for easing our friend's detention.
01:29:19 He enlightened mine.
01:29:21 Take care of the Marquis.
01:29:23 Being unique, he's an endangered species.
01:29:26 I told you Mlle de Lancris was witty.
01:29:30 I had the remark ready.
01:29:37 Farewell.
01:29:42 Done by (c) dCd / June 2005